This page on the Dragon Age Website is for GameStop employees, as EA expresses their appreciation for their support of the Dragon Age franchise. This gives GameStop employees exclusive early access to the playable demo Dragon Age II, and along the way reveals the demo for the RPG sequel will be released to the public on February 23: "This early demo access is being granted to GameStop employees only. Any form of distribution, recording, posting of any elements of the Dragon Age 2 demo and any of its files is strictly prohibited until February 23, 2011 when the demo is made available to all consumers." Thanks Gamer's Hell.

Also it's not like RPGs such as Deus Ex and The Witcher haven't shown that voiced and set characters can't make meaningful decisions and such.

The Witcher and DX were great games but they weren't great RPGs. DX had a lot of interesting low-level choices but very few high-level ones while The Witcher was the opposite. A great RPG has both. Granted, DAO was a very combat-heavy game and similar to The Witcher in that regard, but I still felt it allowed for more roleplaying than any game Bioware has ever made. DA2 seems to be a step back, though I'll reserve final judgment until I actually play it.